How to write and publish a scientific material

1. How to prepare a manuscript for
international publication
Dr.Ahmed Morad Asaad,MBBS,M.Sc.,MD
ProfessorofMicrobiology
ScientificDeputyofBrinceMeshaalChair
HeadofScientificResearchCommittee
CollegeofMedicine
By:

2. Ideally

3. • To get a job
• To keep a job
• To get promoted
• To get funding
Practically

4. Technical
Note
Original
article
Review
Mini
Review
Case
Report
Letter
Editorial
Types of
Articles

5. Title
Abstract
Keywords
Main text
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussions
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Supplementary data
Journal space is not unlimited
Make your article concise as possible.
Make them easy for indexing and
searching (informative,
attractive, effective)
Additional files:
Cover Letter
Title page
Authorship contribution
Copyright transfer

6.  A novel, clear, useful and exciting message
 Well presented – well written
 Latest results in the field
 Controls: adequate - sufficient
 Reliable and suitable statistical methods
 Ethical issues
 Hot interesting topic

7. CONSORT
•Randomized-control studies
TREND
•Non Rand.-control studies
STROBE
•Cross-sectional studies
STRAD
•Diagnostic studies
COREQ
•Qualitative research
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8. Fabrication
•Making up data or results and
reporting them
Falsification
•Manipulating data or results

9. Plagiarism
•Taking someone else’s work
without attributing the source
and claiming it to be one’s own.

10.  Easily detected
 A serious offense
 Hurt your reputation
 End your career
An article in which the authors committed plagiarism: it will not
be removed from ScienceDirect ever. Everybody who downloads
it will see the reason for the retraction…
2009

11. Publication ethics – How it can end .....

12. Recently – US Presidential Elections

13. Author
Editor In-Chief
Assigned Editor
Reviewer-1
Reviewer-2&3
Manuscript

15. > 700 Publishers
> 26000 Journals

16. • Multi-disciplines
General Journals
• Specialty – Sub-specialty
Field-specific Journals
About the
Journal
Scope
Aim

18. Hepatitis B Virus genotyping in chronic Hepatitis B patients in
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JJID
IF = 1.2
Personal Experience:

19. JJID
IF = 1.2
BJID
IF = 1.8

21.  Journal’s prestige and metrics (Impact factor)
A journal’s “impact factor” is an annual measure of the extent
to which articles in that journal are cited.
The number of citations to articles published in previous 2
years, divided by the total number of articles published in
these years.
Number of source items published in 2014 - 2015
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Impact Factor2016 =
Number of citations in 2016 to articles published in 2014 and 2015

22. SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Impact factor
Journal Citation Report (JCR) Impact factor
Google Scholarly (GS) Impact factor

23. Journal Citation Report (JCR) Impact
factor
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Impact
factor
Google Scholarly (GS) Impact factor
Quality
Coverage

24. ISI-Listed Journals
Higher IF
Higher Rejection Rate
(70 - 90%)

25. Global Impact factor (GIF)
Universal Impact factor (UIF)
Journal Citation Report (JCR) Impact factor
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) Impact factor
Google Scholarly (GS) Impact factor

26. Journals
Conferenc
es
Publisher
s
Still…..!!!!

28. Read Authors’ guidelines
Again….again….again
Follow guidelines
Strictly
Don’t waste time
A sign of disrespect

29. Accept
Reject
 Minor Revision
 Major Revision
 Major Revision and
Re-submission
Reject
Authors’ Response
Accept Reject

30. One
• Don’t respond immediately
• Upset - Angry
Two
• Avoid personal attack
• Be polite – tactful – Thank Reviewers
Three
• Carefully read all comments
• Address each point
Four
• Each change should be stated clearly and highlighted
• Explain

31. • Picking wrong journal1
• Not matching Journal style2
• Not following Journal guidelines3
• Poor writing/design4

32. • Data manipulation5
• Unrevealed conflict of interest6
• Unrevealed ethical issues7
• Duplicate manuscripts8

33. We are
not
alone
Many famous authors had their
work rejected
Be
Positive
To write a better
manuscript
Keep writing

34. REJECTION
It starts from an early age. Get used to it…!!

35. From this… …to this!
It Really
deserves